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Yuriy Brun, assistant professor of computer science, has received a five-year, $550,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his project “Improving Software Quality using Dynamically Inferred Models.”
He explains, “Software has...

The ImmuCell Corp. of Portland, Maine, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive agreement to license new bacteriocin technology from UMass Amherst, developed by biologist Margaret Riley and colleagues, internationally recognized researchers in antibiotics.

Raji Balasubramanian, associate professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences’ department of biostatistics and epidemiology, recently received a four-year, $1,546,787 grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute...

The Biomechanics Laboratory in the kinesiology department is recruiting volunteers for a study about how knee osteoarthritis changes the way people walk.
The lab is looking for individuals who meet the following criteria: ages 50-75, in good general health, able to walk without a cane or other...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst today launched a new Center for Data Science that will coordinate and significantly expand its capacity for research, education and industry collaboration in support of the exploding demand for acquisition and analysis of “big data.”

Congressman Jim McGovern today announced U.S. Department of Agriculture grants totaling $1.7 million to two University of Massachusetts Amherst food science researchers and the director of the ethnic crops program at the university’s Stockbridge School of Agriculture.

UMass Amherst will launch a new Center for Data Science that will coordinate and significantly expand its capacity for research, education and industry collaboration in support of the exploding demand for acquisition and analysis of “big data.”

A new study by researchers from UMass Amherst indicates that current methods used to measure hospital quality are fraught with problems that have large consequences for how hospitals are reimbursed by Medicare.